Trump administration sides with Ohio on purging voter rolls

President Donald Trump's administration has reversed the government's position on a voter roll case before the U.S. Supreme Court and is now backing Ohio's method for purging voters. Ohio's system for removing inactive voters from the rolls does not violate the National Voter Registration Act, the Justice Department said Monday.

Big rise in number of active leak probes

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pledged to clamp down in government leaks that he said undermine American security, taking an aggressive public stand after being called weak on the matter by President Donald Trump. The nation's top law enforcement official is citing no current investigations in which disclosures of information had jeopardized the country, but says the number of criminal leak probes had more than tripled in the early months of the Trump administration.

California lobbyists soldier on despite that swamp-draining talk

President Donald Trump came to Washington, D.C., decrying lobbyists and vowing to “drain the swamp” - but six months into his administration, California's top lobbyists say the only major changes they've had to make are in their language. For the most part, California government agencies lobbying in D.C. are largely focused on the same issues as always: getting a cut of the federal budget and advocating for increased federal spending, according to federal lobbying disclosures due late last month.

Pence slams report he’s running for president

Vice President Mike Pence called out a New York Times article that said he was establishing a "shadow campaign" to run for president in 2020. SEE MORE: President Trump's Top Generals Are Empowered And Working Overtime On Saturday, the Times story said Pence has been "creating an independent power base, cementing his status as [President Donald] Trump's heir apparent and promoting himself as the main conduit between the Republican donor class and the administration."

Kellyanne Conway makes mindblowing pivot to Benghazi when grilled about Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting

"This Week" host George Stephanopoulos put Kellyanne Conway on the spot Sunday morning when the senior White House adviser tried to change the subject away from President Donald Trump's role in crafting a misleading statement about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer last year. Stephanopoulos pointed out that the White House and Trump's surrogates have given conflicting statements about the level of Trump's involvement in responding to initial reports that Donald Trump Jr. met with the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, last June, in a meeting that also included then-campaign manager Paul Manafort and senior adviser Jared Kushner.

Key Words: Mike Pence: Report of 2020 presidential run ‘offensive’ and ‘absurd’

Vice President Mike Pence vehemently denied on Sunday a New York Times report that he was positioning himself to run for president in 2020. While President Donald Trump has given no indication he won't run for re-election, the Times reported Saturday that a number of top Republicans, including Pence, have been building fund-raising committees with an eye on the 2020 election.

Rosenstein: Special counsel Mueller can investigate any crimes he uncovers in Russia probe

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens while U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Department of Justice during an announcement about leaking of classified information on Aug. 4, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens while U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Department of Justice during an announcement about leaking of classified information on Aug. 4, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Sunday that the expanding investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is continuing apace, even as President Donald Trump dismissed the probe as "a total fabrication."

How Trump administration ignores Trump: Presidential demands sometimes dismissed

Something strange has been happening lately in Washington when the most powerful man in town, the president of the United States, makes a headline-grabbing declaration on some new policy. Some recent presidential statements have been simply ignored, tuned out as meaningless noise by the federal apparatus he runs.

Sen. Warren honing campaign pitch as GOP eyes 2018 campaign

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren won't face voters for more than a year, but the broad outlines of the effort to unseat the Massachusetts Democrat, and her re-election pitch to voters, are taking shape. Two Republicans have announced their candidacies, two others are said to be weighing runs, and conservative political groups are chipping away at the candidate.

Entrenched poverty tough to shake in the Mississippi Delta

Otibehia Allen is a single mother who lives in a rented mobile home in the same isolated, poor community where she grew up among the cotton and soybean fields of the Mississippi Delta. During a summer that feels like a sauna, the trailer's air conditioner has conked out.

Donald Trump won the election, and we don’t know whether he…

Donald Trump won the election, and we don't know whether he colluded - but he's not a legitimate president We know for sure Trump wants to shut down the Russia investigation, and that's more than enough to disgrace him Here's the biggest problem in discussing President Donald Trump's ongoing Russia scandal: Everyone has a bias, and there's no such thing as a neutral party. For many Democrats, there is the bias of wanting to retroactively vindicate Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, despite her shocking loss in the November election.

President Trump is tasked with governing, but he keeps harping on these 7 things

President Trump during a speech last month before the Boy Scouts of America in West Virginia. For President Trump , who in recent weeks has used speeches before the Boy Scouts of America and police officers to deliver overtly political remarks at nonpolitical events, continues to be consumed by the same issues.